Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, April 6, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Triumph

Welcome to "Fan the Flame" Friday.

This is a weekly post that will be "short and sweet" (kinda like me...)

Just a word and a phrase, a sentence or a question...just a little something to "fan the flame" of your creativity!

Today's word: triumph

What does the word triumph mean?

How is simply winning different than a triumph?

What is the biggest personal triumph of your life?

The Resurrection changed everything - how has Jesus' triumph on the cross changed the way you live?

Let me know what you think!!

"This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you…For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline." (2 Timothy 1:6-7)

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7 comments:

bettyApril 6, 2012 at 4:48 AM
Triumph, victorious, conquering. Jesus triumphed on the cross because he conquered so much for us, conquered sin, conquered death. Ultimate victory over everything. Jesus' resurrection gives me hope and security in knowing there is a great life that awaits me for all of eternity! Happy Easter Sharon and family!

betty
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KerrieApril 6, 2012 at 8:26 AM
Ah, my JESUS! Oh how I love YOU!

Good Friday to you my friend.
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DeniseApril 6, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Triumph i what Jesus did, He overcame great obstacles. He conquered death, and the grave.
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AnonymousApril 6, 2012 at 5:41 PM
Triumph! Been a hard few weeks and if you asked me this a week ago I would be hard pressed to feel any identification to the word. But, I can do all things through Christ - so this week, mending along, I am thinking more like I can triumph through Christ - just as He triumphed through the cross. New life was on the other side of the cross - triumph; new life is on the other side of losing a really crummy job - triumph for sure.
All this making my Resurrection Week meditations deeper and more soul searching . . . changing me into more of His image and will for my life - yes, a triumph, indeed. To God be the Glory. A cost effective job loss.
Always so timely with your sharing, Sharon . . .
Bless you this Resurrection Weekend!
Joy!
Kathy
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Nikki (Sarah)April 7, 2012 at 5:30 AM
Hi Sharon....biggest for me was standing up to my family and not denying my faith. Being Jewish, they wanted me to renounce what I believed even though they saw how much it had changed me. I could never do that. My stand came with a lot of pain...they didn't want me to attend holidays and called me all kinds of names....but it didn't really matter b/c in my heart....His joy spilled over so much and now my older sister calls me all the time and says she sees something in me that she wants. Yeahh. Happy Easter
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CharlotteApril 7, 2012 at 7:16 PM
To triumph is to be victorious. I just read Sarah's comment above. She is such a good example of triumphing.
Happy Easter.
Blessings,
Charlotte
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ruthApril 9, 2012 at 6:42 AM
Sin could not hold it's prey,
He tore the bars away, Jesus my Lord.
Up from the grave he arose.
With a mighty triumph o'er his foes
He arose a victor from the dark domain and he lives forever with his saints to reign. He arose, he arose, Hallelujah, Christ arose!
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"So [I] have been greatly encouraged in the midst of [my] troubles and suffering, dear brothers and sisters, because you have remained strong in your faith. It gives [me] new life to know that you are standing firm in the Lord. How [I] thank God for you!" (1 Thessalonians 3:7-9)

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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

WHAT IS LOVE?

Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Anonymous

When you are uncertain, it helps to have someone remind you what is true – someone who knows you well, who sees you, and keeps track of you – not just your body but your soul.

Emily Freeman

Sharon Sharing God

Friday, April 6, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Triumph

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